Definition of Lactate

1. Noun. A salt or ester of lactic acid.

Generic synonyms: Ester, Salt

2. Verb. Give suck to. "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places"
Exact synonyms: Breastfeed, Give Suck, Nurse, Suck, Suckle, Wet-nurse
Related verbs: Suck
Generic synonyms: Feed, Give
Antonyms: Bottlefeed
Derivative terms: Lactation, Lactation, Lactation, Nurse, Nursery, Nursing, Suck, Sucker

Definition of Lactate

1. n. A salt of lactic acid.

Definition of Lactate

1. Verb. (intransitive) To secrete or produce milk ¹

2. Noun. (chemistry) Any salt or ester of lactic acid ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Lactate

1. to secrete milk [v -TATED, -TATING, -TATES]

Medical Definition of Lactate

1. Important as the terminal product of anaerobic glycolysis. Accumulation of lactate in tissues is responsible for the so called oxygen debt. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lactate

lactamic
lactamic acid
lactamide
lactamides
lactams
lactard
lactarene
lactarian
lactarians
lactaries
lactary
lactase
lactase deficiency
lactase restriction
lactases
lactate (current term)
lactate-2-sulfate sulfatase
lactate 2-mono-oxygenase
lactate dehydratase
lactate dehydrogenase
lactate dehydrogenase isoenzymes
lactate dehydrogenase virus
lactate level
lactated
lactated Ringer's injection
lactated Ringer's solution
lactates
lactating
lactating adenoma
lactation

Literary usage of Lactate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1871)
"SH'O, may be prepared by decomposing the calcium-salt with ferrous sulphate, or by mixing lactate of ammonium with ferrous chloride in presence of alcohol ..."

2. The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of (1851)
"lactate of magnesia crystallises in vertical prisms with horizontal terminal ... lactate of copper crystallises in hard, blue or green, -wart-like masses. ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1907)
"Strontium* lactate in Hemophilia.—J. 8. ... 428) lias obtained an excellent result in a hemophilic patient in whom calcium lactate and the administration of ..."

4. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1857)
"484 lactate of Lime and Potash, ... 487 lactate of Zinc, C^H^Zn'O12 „ .... 488 lactate of Zinc and Potassium, ..."

5. American Druggist (1889)
"lactate of Quinine for Hypodermic Use. AT a recent meeting of the Paris Society of Pharmacy, M. Vigier read a note on lactate of quinine for hypodermic ..."

6. The Chemist: A Monthly Journal of Chemical and Physical Science (1857)
"lactate of zinc may be obtained, 1st, by the saturation of lactic acid; 2nd, ... The metal dissolves and lactate of zinc is formed, with a disengagement of ..."

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